1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Ryan Day's a national championship winning head coach. I hope 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: everyone heard me, because that's not necessarily something that everyone 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: expected to be saying in late November, and I think 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: we all know what I'm talking about here. He, by 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: the way, is about twenty yards off to my right. 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: Ohio State has won the national championship. So I am 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: standing on a bed of scarlet and gray confetti. Ohio 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: State was favored to win this thing. They won it 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: by a little over the margin that we thought they'd 10 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: win it by. 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: Biggest takeaway here is I. 12 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: Cannot help but take myself back to this very building 13 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: about oh I'd say ninety to one hundred yards away 14 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: from where I'm standing right now. It was New Year's 15 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: Eve giving way to New Year's Day. Twenty twenty two 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: to twenty twenty three. Ohio State field goal attempt goes 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: I believe wide left. They lose to Georgia in the 18 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: semi final. Otherwise they probably go on to handle TCU 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: and win a national title. I said coming out of 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: that one that Ryan Day is a national championship caliber coach. 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: There's just the difference between having done it and maybe 22 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: it's still being in the future. A lot of folks 23 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: sort of drifted towards Kant, which was always ignorant to me. 24 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: So that's moot point number one now because he's won 25 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: a national championship. 26 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: But I don't think we. 27 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: Could play this thing, guys, ten, fifteen, twenty years in 28 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: the future, even with the new format, even with an 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: expanded college football playoff. And ever see someone, a team, 30 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: a person period go through the highest of highest, lowest 31 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: of lows over the span not of years, but of 32 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: a few weeks. 33 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 2: I sat there along with the rest of you. 34 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: Some of you were in the shoe for the Michigan game, 35 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: a lot of you watched on TV. And I'm watching 36 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: at the end, and I'm thinking, this is utter devastation. 37 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: I mean, when you consider what the expectations of this 38 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: team are, when you consider what's invested, when you consider 39 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: what the standard and what the expectation level is, and 40 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: when you knew what the talking points around Ryan Day were, 41 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: this is utter devastation. 42 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: But yet you also have a voice in the back 43 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 2: of your. 44 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: Mind that says, we got twelve teams that we put 45 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: in this thing now and you still got an opportunity. 46 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: And I don't think no matter how much you pay someone. 47 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: There is a duplication for the ability to take an 48 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: organization much less just yourself, but to take an organization 49 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: and to get it back up off the deck, and 50 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: to be honest, a lot of the leadership in that 51 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: locker room probably took care of that, along with coaches. 52 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: But to get back. 53 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: Up off the deck and to end up winning this thing, 54 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: to end up making a run. They end up beaten 55 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: five top five AP teams over the course of this 56 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: run that they go on to win a national championship 57 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: ultra impressive. So the game tonight specifically, there were some 58 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: non negotiables that we talked about for Notre Dame. Felt 59 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: like if they had another opponent run for over two 60 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: hundred on them, it would spell bad things. Another two 61 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: possession lead someone had on them would spell bad things 62 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: that ended up happening here. And turnovers weren't a huge 63 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: edge for Notre Dame. 64 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: In this one. 65 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: Think there was one, and it ends up being pretty inconsequential. 66 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: It's not something that anyone will talk about. But think 67 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: about how this started. Now, I'm telling you, I'm sitting 68 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: there and I'm thinking about what needs to happen and 69 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: what kind of tone needs to be set, and you 70 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: can't let Ohio State come out of the gate and 71 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: just cut your throat, basically, and Notre Dame goes on 72 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: like an eighteen play, seven and a half, eight minute 73 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: drive whatever it was. They score a touchdown and then 74 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: what happened is Ohio State didn't flinch. And that is 75 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: a lot different than the vibe that that team gave 76 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 1: off in the Michigan game. It's a I wouldn't say 77 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: they gave off that vibe in the Oregon game, but 78 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: the Michigan game they gave. 79 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 2: Off a vibe of man rattled. 80 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: Now we got to play not to lose, and instead 81 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: they get down seven to zero here tonight, and it is. 82 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: Boom boom, boom boom. 83 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: Extended drives, by the way, not quick strike stuff. They 84 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: took exactly what Notre Dame gave them, huge testament to 85 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: Will Howard, huge testament to Chip Kelly, and they go 86 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: up big, and I know this thing got kind of 87 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: close at the end, and by the way, had Notre 88 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: Dame ended up coming back and tying this thing or 89 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: winning it, it would have been the most surreal, weird 90 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: feeling when I think I've ever seen now didn't happen, 91 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: but there was a moment there before Howard hits the 92 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: big play to Jeremiah Smith down the sideline, which was 93 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: open on second down too. 94 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: By the way, before he did that, you're. 95 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: Sitting there thinking, in the back of your mind, I'm thinking, 96 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, I've already written the 97 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: story of this game. In my mind, I called it 98 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: a splattering. We were gonna have to call it the 99 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: unsplattering if Notre Dame came back to win. Fortunately, I 100 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: don't have to do that because you only get to 101 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: make that mistake once in your life. You only get 102 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: to call a game of splattering, and it ended up 103 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: going the other way once, and then you can never 104 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: use the phrase. I would have had to retire it. 105 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: So Ohio State's a national championship winning team. Now, I 106 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: don't feel an ounce different about Ryan Date. Now you 107 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: may feel differently than me on that. I know a 108 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: lot of you. There's nothing wrong with this, by the way, 109 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: I just I may be in the minority on this. 110 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 2: I know a lot of you. 111 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: Look at how you judge coaches, and you just count championships. 112 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: I've never really done it that way. They're worth a 113 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: lot it makes your Wikipedia page look great. But I've 114 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: always been a belief in which ones can put their 115 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: teams in the right place multiple times, because the right 116 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: time will eventually find them. Kirby Smart was that way 117 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: for a while. Kirby for a while, even though everyone's 118 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: whitewashed history and no one remembers this now, Kirby for 119 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: a while was the guy that couldn't get over the hump, 120 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: couldn't beat Nick Saban, couldn't win the big one. And 121 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: then he got over the hump, and he beat Saban 122 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: and won a couple of titles in a row, and 123 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: no one. 124 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: Talks like that anymore. 125 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: They had just copied and pasted all that nonsense and 126 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: started labeling Ryan date its same way. So now you 127 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: look at him some will completely differently. Same duty was 128 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 1: this morning when he woke up, And for that matter, 129 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: had they lost this game tonight, he'd be the same. 130 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 2: Dude. 131 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: It's just you put yourself in the right place enough 132 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: times and the right time finally finds you. Now, moving forward, 133 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: I'd say the same thing about Notre Dame's team as 134 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: I would about Ohio State. They just happened to be 135 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: holding the belt. You don't ever assume that you'll get 136 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: this collection again. You don't ever assume you'll get this 137 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: confluence of circumstances again, because who amongst us, or who's 138 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: to amongst us is to say that the Michigan loss 139 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: wasn't ultimately good to fuel this outcome. I hate saying 140 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: that because I think rivalries are the bedrock tradition of 141 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: the sport. But that is where we are today, the 142 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: Notre Dame side. There's going to be a lot of 143 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: talk right now. I will participate in it. By the 144 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: way that I don't think this is a blip on 145 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: the radar screen. I think their program will be right 146 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: back there. But I'm also around this team, been around 147 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: them a fair amount down the stretch. There is no 148 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: duplicating how close, how tight knit, how sort of communal 149 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: band of brothers. Even if you will that that locker 150 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: room feels, and that team and that organization feels. It's 151 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: not that you can't have a strong team every year. 152 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: It's not that the program standing on values and principles 153 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: won't produce a similar. 154 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: Result every year. 155 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,119 Speaker 1: But I've learned man covering the sport, watching this sport, 156 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: loving the sport my whole life. 157 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 2: It means something. 158 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: When you get close, you got to go win these 159 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: things because you're never guaranteed to get back there again. 160 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: I don't care if you recruit your tail off, You're 161 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: never guaranteed to get back there again. And the path 162 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: has only gotten harder. It gives light, it gives oxygen 163 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: to more teams, but the path to actually go win 164 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: one of these things only gets harder. Hope Marcus Freeman 165 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: is back here. Hope they get another shot to talk 166 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: about Ryan Day and Ohio State now. 167 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: Will be okay. What does the future hold now? Is 168 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 2: one one? 169 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: How many more can he win? Maybe he'll never win 170 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: another one, maybe he'll win four. I'm just telling you, 171 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: I think the dudes the same duty's been for a 172 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: long time. I personally am really happy for him, but 173 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: I also look, I can't wait to see what happens 174 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: to that organization. And I'm speaking holistically program organization instead 175 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: of team, because next year's will not look the same. 176 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: A lot of these dudes were brought back, a lot 177 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: of these guys were enticed to come back, partly because 178 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: they believe in Ohio State and finishing a drill the 179 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: hat and field. 180 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 2: The other part was they invested in them. 181 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: One of the most foolish and misguided talking points that 182 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: still exists even tonight, even as they've won this title 183 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: around this team was well, that's twenty million dollars, that's 184 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: what it'll buy you. As if they went and just 185 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: supermarket sweep style knocked a bunch of players into a 186 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: checkout line, and look, we got the winning team in 187 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: our basket. 188 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 2: Here. 189 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: Fact of the matter is they went and got a 190 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: few big time players like Caleb Downs and Quinchwn Judkins, 191 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: but spent a vast majority of that twenty mili to 192 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: keep guys they recruited home for one more go around, 193 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: to keep it from going to the draft. When one 194 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: more go around. Look at who's doing that right now. 195 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: Penn State's trying that, Alabama's trying that. A lot of 196 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: programs understand that's actually the way to go. You spend 197 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: some on the periphery if you want to sustain on 198 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: portal talent. But the name of the game has been 199 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: and still is and will continue to be evaluate properly, 200 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: recruit guys out of high school, find the ones you 201 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: can win with, and invest in them, and then put 202 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: the cherries on top. 203 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 2: Through the portal. 204 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad Ohio State did it that way, 205 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: because if you've been paying attention this year, you've seen 206 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: the portal's not the path. The portal's a nice supplement, 207 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: but recruiting, evaluation, and supreme in house development and structuring. 208 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 2: You're spending the right way. That's the way to do it. 209 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: It's just that it sounds a little bit differently now. 210 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: So congrats to Ryan Day Ohio State thirty four twenty three, 211 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: a national championship win. 212 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 2: Pleasure to cover that team.